Re: Setting CPU limits

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:48:07 +0200

In comp.os.linux.security mrmazoo@gmail.com:
> Hi all,

> I'm trying to limit the CPU usage of my users. I have modified my
> /etc/security/limits.conf file and added the following lines:

> @student hard nproc 20
> @student hard cpu 10

> First, is 10 minutes a riduclously small amount of CPU time to give to
> students?

Depends on what they are doing, you might need some trial/error
to find an acceptable value.

> Second, and more importantly, does modifying the limits.conf file
> require a reboot to take effect?

Of course not.;) But you need to log out users, limits are
applied during login. 

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